Septic systems, land clearing, grading, drainage and gravel driveways for the tri-state corner. Based in Pownal, minutes from Bennington, and working across the Vermont, New York and Massachusetts lines.
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Pownal, VT · Tri-State Corner Diggin Life is an excavation company in Pownal, Vermont. More than 30 years of trucking sit behind it, with excavation work before that. Now the machines work dirt close to home. From Pownal we handle excavation across Bennington County and the neighboring corners of New York and Massachusetts. Septic systems, cleared lots, building pads, dry basements and driveways that survive mud season. We look at every site in person and price the real job.
One company handles your job from the first call to the finished grade. The estimate, the schedule and the digging all come from the same shop, so you always know who to call.
Clearing, the septic system, the pad, the drainage and the driveway can run as one job with one schedule. For timber frames and pools, longtime partner builders join the same plan.
Every estimate comes from looking at the actual ground. Ledge, slope, water and access set the real cost of dirt work here, so we look first and the number holds.
Ledge near the surface, frost four feet down, mud season every April. Work here has to be planned for what the ground does in March, and ours is.
Dirt, water and winter work for homes and small businesses across the tri-state corner, plus timber frames and pools with our longtime local partners.
We install new septic systems and full replacements across the tri-state corner. Tank, drain field, pipe and final grade, all built to the licensed design on your permit.
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Septic system repair for older rural systems around Bennington and the tri-state corner. We find why it backed up, then repair the tank, the line, or the field.
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We clear overgrown lots and acreage so the land can be used again. Brush, saplings, stumps, and old fence line come out. What is left is ready for a build site or pasture.
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Forestry mulching grinds standing brush and small trees into a layer of mulch. One machine does the cutting and the cleanup. The ground stays covered and the wood stays on your land.
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We handle grading and site preparation across the tri-state corner. That means building pads, foundation digs, driveway subgrade, and regrading a yard so water runs away from the house.
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French drains, curtain drains, yard drains and culverts that move snowmelt and storm runoff away from the house. We dig below frost depth and pitch every line so it keeps working.
View DetailsCall for a free estimate. We look at the site and price the job from what is actually in the ground.
From the first look at the site to the last pass of finish grade, here is exactly how it goes.
We come out and read the ground: the slope, the water, the access, and whether ledge is likely. What you want done, what is worth doing, and what the job really takes. Nothing gets quoted blind over the phone.
You get a free estimate with a real number and a real window. It covers what is included, and it holds unless the ground changes the scope. If rock shows up mid dig, you hear about it that day.
The machine shows up when we said it would, and the person running it is the person you talked to. The work follows the plan: the permit design on a septic job, the grade plan on a pad, the pitch on a drain.
Backfill goes in compacted, grades pitch away from the house, and topsoil comes back where it belongs. We look at the finished work with you, and done means you say it is done.
Septic systems, cleared ground, drainage and driveways. Job photos join this page as projects wrap up.
Based in Pownal, we cover Bennington County VT, Rensselaer and Albany counties NY, and Berkshire County MA: the communities below and the ground between them.
The questions property owners around Bennington ask before a dig. Yours not here? Call the shop and ask. The estimate stays free either way.
A septic system that needs to go in, a lot to clear, a wet yard, or a driveway that will not survive another spring? Call or send the form. We look at the site with you and price the job from what is actually in the ground.
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